This is a farm in progress.
Your place in the farm
Explore the land
The Baya Room sits inside a living farm rather than apart from it. See where you will sleep, eat, meet the animals, and set out beneath the olive trees.
Stay
The Baya Room and shared guest spaces
Grow
Olives, fruit trees, vegetables, and beehives
Gather
Outdoor kitchen, dining, and places to sit
Meet
The animals and their open farm spaces
Wander
Farm roads and trails through forty acres
The story of the land
Forty acres, changing with the seasons.
Four years ago, Mahdi made a decision.
His family had farmed this land for generations - 40 acres of monoculture olives, managed the conventional way. Four years ago, Mahdi began the transition. To permaculture. To biodiversity. To a farm that works with nature instead of against it. It is not finished. It may never be finished. That is the point.
The land and what it grows.
Olives, pressed into oil guests take home in bottles. Pomegranates picked in autumn and juiced by hand. Almonds, figs, peaches, plums. A greenhouse for year-round growing. Vegetables pulled from the ground hours before your plate. Beehives among the trees, tended through the seasons.
The animals roam freely.
A horse. A donkey. Sheep. Chickens and ducks. A peacock who answers to no one. Two Malinois dogs who make the nights feel safe. During the day, all of them go wherever they please. You will find them in unexpected places. That is normal here.
Meet your host
“I enjoy movement, music, building with my hands, meditating, and hosting the world on my land.”
Mahdi, Farm El Baya
Mahdi is a calisthenics coach, yoga teacher, builder, beekeeper, farmer, and host. He keeps adding to the farm with the patience of someone who knows living things do not respond to deadlines.
Come to El Baya
Stay on this land.
Wake among the olive trees, share the farm's daily rhythm, and make the Baya Room your base near Testour.